How to take Backup

[Andrew Farris]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 18:57 +0000, ashwin1711 wrote:
> Dear sir,
>              I wanted to take backup from my corrupted Ubuntu home.I
> am using ubuntu as a live session user.There are some files which says
> (There was an error copying the file into /media/DISK2_VOL2You are not
> the owner and in the show more details this msg *Error opening file:
> Permission denied*) So I could not take backup for this video files.
> 
> I request you to help me please.
> 
> Thank you in advance
> -- 
> ASHWIN JANGAM

try:
    chown <YourUsernameHere> /path/to/the/file

or just do: 
    sudo cp /path/to/the/file /path/to/the/backup


-- 
Andrew
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